Correct. Neither a fan but can’t discredit the decent stuff. Half my country cannot get sea cable Internet because of its geographical nature, and starlink is one of the cheaper options. Also, to make a difference in people's lives, it's not just creating innovative ideas but also effectively bring them to the market. There has been millions of innovations you don’t see or have never heard off because it lacks the second part. Btw Elon in an interview with Wired in 2012, he specifically talked abt not building patents for spaceX because of China : “We have essentially no patents in SpaceX. Our primary long-term competition is in China—if we published patents, it would be farcical, because the Chinese would just use them as a recipe book”

It works in an easy money environment with plenty of investors chasing buzzwords being sold hopium about scaling and unrealistic expectations about price declines and revenue increase. But the economic sustainability of launching a very large number of satellites to satisfy the very small number of people who live in isolated areas is extremely suspect, just like every single other thing Elon has ever 'built'.

Starlink is actually global hypersonic missle detection and tracking array. The internet part is a nice little cover story for military hardware. 🤷‍♂️